Specifications

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Chapter 11: Setup Menu
This menu provides commands to open dialogs
and windows for configuring various Pro Tools
hardware and software parameters.
Hardware
This command displays the Hardware Setup di-
alog, where you can specify settings for your
hardware and sessions. Configure the settings
for any audio interface connected to your
Pro Tools system by selecting it from the Pe-
ripherals list.
The Main page of the Hardware Setup dialog can
be used to define what physical ports are routed
to Pro Tools input and output channels. The
Main page also provides controls for Session
Sample Rate and Clock settings.
With Pro Tools HD, additional pages can be
used to configure other parameters on each au-
dio interface (such as setting operating levels).
Playback Engine
This Playback Engine lets you set a hardware
buffer size, define the RTAS Processors alloca-
tion on multi-processor computers, allocate a
percentage of CPU resources for these tasks, and
configure RTAS error reporting for playback
and recording.
On Pro Tools|HD systems, you can select the
number of voices and voiceable tracks for your
system and its sessions. Voice count choices are
based on how much DSP processing you want to
allocate for voicing. If you change the Number
Of Voices setting (Pro Tools HD only) mid-ses-
sion, the session will be saved, closed, and re-
opened to enable the new settings.
Hardware Setup dialog, Main page (HD OMNI shown)
Playback Engine for Pro Tools|HD system